People petition McDonald's to bring back plastic straws

Alternatively they could just drink it without a straw. Who over the age of 12 needs to drink with a straw anyway?

Quite a lot of disabled people actually. It's why I'm against a ban on plastic straws, they're the only type that are hot liquid safe (disabled people still want a cup of tea), positionable and not a safety hazard. Glass and metal aren't good if you have spasms, paper is a choking hazard and silicone isn't positionable.

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition asking McDonald's to bring back plastic straws. Obviously paper straws aren't nearly as effective as plastic ones (if you had to choose a material that needed to keep its integrity when wet, only an idiot chooses paper over plastic), but they are also much less harmful to the environment (if you had to choose a material to ingest, only an idiot chooses plastic over paper). However, for a lot of people, the trade off in usability for the environment is too much, as they find they can't actually consume their drink, or they end up slurping parts of their degraded straw.

Clearly a lot of the reasons for this are questionable at best and have been widely mocked and derided, but there is a point of interest for all of us - to what extent do we sacrifice convenience or even utility because people aren't recycling the recyclable? The main problem isn't from people using plastic straws, it is that people aren't recycling them when they clearly can.

Okay, fair enough for disabled people. But 99% of people are perfect capable of drinking something without a straw, so I really don't understand what they are whining about.

Around 20% of people have a disability of some kind.

Plastic straws should not return at McDonalds, indeed they should be outlawed, along with all forms of single use plastic. I would like to see these fast 'food' places restricted in what they can sell and when they can open, at least to children, as a step towards tackling obesity.

We will have less convenience if fish are killed by plastic and the oceans polluted. As long as everyone is similarly losing a bit of convenience and people are not being singled out, seems fair enough to me.

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition asking McDonald's to bring back plastic straws. Obviously paper straws aren't nearly as effective as plastic ones (if you had to choose a material that needed to keep its integrity when wet, only an idiot chooses paper over plastic), but they are also much less harmful to the environment (if you had to choose a material to ingest, only an idiot chooses plastic over paper). However, for a lot of people, the trade off in usability for the environment is too much, as they find they can't actually consume their drink, or they end up slurping parts of their degraded straw.

Clearly a lot of the reasons for this are questionable at best and have been widely mocked and derided, but there is a point of interest for all of us - to what extent do we sacrifice convenience or even utility because people aren't recycling the recyclable? The main problem isn't from people using plastic straws, it is that people aren't recycling them when they clearly can.

Most disablities still do not preclude one from drinking without a straw.

Almost 40,000 people have signed a petition asking McDonald's to bring back plastic straws. Obviously paper straws aren't nearly as effective as plastic ones (if you had to choose a material that needed to keep its integrity when wet, only an idiot chooses paper over plastic), but they are also much less harmful to the environment (if you had to choose a material to ingest, only an idiot chooses plastic over paper). However, for a lot of people, the trade off in usability for the environment is too much, as they find they can't actually consume their drink, or they end up slurping parts of their degraded straw.

Clearly a lot of the reasons for this are questionable at best and have been widely mocked and derided, but there is a point of interest for all of us - to what extent do we sacrifice convenience or even utility because people aren't recycling the recyclable? The main problem isn't from people using plastic straws, it is that people aren't recycling them when they clearly can.

1/3 of the drink left and suddenly I am eating paper, like I am back in reception class.